Military

No one is born a leader. But through sheer determination and by confronting life’s challenges, Ant Middleton has come to know the meaning of true leadership....

From the best-selling author of Agent Zigzag, the thrilling true story of the greatest and most successful wartime deception ever attempted....

On 25 June, 1950, the invasion of South Korea by the Communist North launched one of the bloodiest conflicts of the last century....

In Extreme Ownership, Jocko Willink and Leif Babin share hard-hitting Navy SEAL combat stories that translate into lessons for business and life....

Billy Billingham grew up tough; a grim future ahead of him offering little respite from the hostile streets he walked....

The Nazi Hunters is the incredible, hitherto untold story of the most secret chapter in the SAS' history....

Jason Fox served with the SBS for over a decade, thriving on the close bonds of the Special Forces brotherhood and the ‘death or glory’ nature of their missions....

University student Anna Winslow has gone missing and the circumstances of her disappearance are far from ordinary....

Born ‘a ragged-arsed kid from the backstreets of Glasgow’, McCallion joined the Paras to escape a miserable home life and find the family he longed for....

A thrilling Cold War story about a KGB double agent, by one of Britain's greatest historians - now with a new afterword.... 

A vast canvas of camps, prisons, transit centres and secret police, of informers and spies and interrogators but also of everyday heroism, The Gulag Archipelago is Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's grand masterwork.... 

Andrew Roberts asks whether, with a different decision-making process and a different strategy, Hitler’s Axis might even have won.....

At the end of the Second World War, some of the highest ranking Nazis escaped from justice....

A blistering account of the history of Britain's war against the IRA between 1970 and 1998....

An audio dramatisation in 6 episodes of With Our Backs To The Wall: Victory and Defeat in 1918 by David Stevenson, Professor of International History at the LSE....

We all have break points to face - at the gym, in the office, in our personal lives - those moments of self-doubt where we have to dig deep and find something within to grab hold of and push us through.... 

The finest fighting force in the world. Escape. Evade. Survive. Repeat. Seven gripping tales of overcoming the impossible....

From his illegitimate birth in a small Austrian village to his fiery death in a bunker under the Reich chancellery in Berlin, Adolf Hitler left a murky trail....

The Anarchy tells the remarkable story of how one of the world’s most magnificent empires disintegrated and came to be replaced by a dangerously unregulated private company....

Elizabeth of York would have ruled England, but for the fact that she was a woman....

In the boot were six homemade pipe bombs, all linked to detonate at the same time from a single call on a brand-new pay-as-you-go phone found on the target....

In February 1944, a rag-tag collection of clerks, drivers, doctors, muleteers and other base troops, stiffened by a few dogged Yorkshiremen and a handful of tank crews, managed to hold out against some of the finest infantry in the Japanese Army....

Tom Marcus spent years of his life undercover, waging a secret war on the streets against those who want to do us harm....

David Marquet, an experienced Navy officer, was used to giving orders....

The Second World War began in August 1939 on the edge of Manchuria and ended there exactly six years later with the Soviet invasion of northern China....

Irving shares the true story of his extraordinary career, including his deployment to Afghanistan in the summer of 2009....

The history of the modern SAS is one of the great successes of postwar Britain. Since it was revived in 1950 to combat Communist insurgents, the Regiment has gone from strength to strength, fighting covert wars in Oman, Borneo, Northern Ireland, the Falklands, the Persian Gulf....